{"id":32800,"date":"2015-09-21T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32800"},"modified":"2017-07-14T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T14:16:33","slug":"command-and-control-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/command-and-control-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Command and Control Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gRolVmFOk1U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 18 Mar 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What happened to the cleanliness of your clothes after the U.S. Department of Energy issued new washing machine requirements? The requirements \u2014 which require washers to use 21% less energy \u2014 mean that washers actually clean clothes less than they used to. Is \u201ccommand and control&#8221; an efficient way to achieve the desired outcome (which is less pollution)? Rather than a standard requirement, such as the Department of Energy issued, a tax on electricity would provide users with greater flexibility in their washing\u2014and would prompt people to purchase machines that use energy more efficiently and keep their clothes clean.<\/p>\n<p>Are there times when a command and control solution to a problem makes the most sense? We look at the eradication of smallpox as one example. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 18 Mar 2015 What happened to the cleanliness of your clothes after the U.S. Department of Energy issued new washing machine requirements? The requirements \u2014 which require washers to use 21% less energy \u2014 mean that washers actually clean clothes less than they used to. Is \u201ccommand and control&#8221; an efficient way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84],"tags":[712,497,1026,1143,244,661,118],"class_list":["post-32800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","tag-centralplanning","tag-electricity","tag-microeconomics","tag-principlesofeconomics","tag-publichealth","tag-regulation","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8x2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32801,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800\/revisions\/32801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}